This is the fifth in a series of conference-book projects to globalize civil sphere theory (CST).
The resurgence of authoritarian, extremist social, cultural, and political movements poses the greatest challenge to democracy since the 1930s. We believe this extraordinarily dangerous development can and should be conceptualized in terms of civil sphere theory, in terms of the strains and challenges that face real existing civil spheres. Not only will doing so freshly illuminate left and right populism but it will advance and elaborate the research program that has been developing around civil sphere theory.
Participants:
Jeffrey Alexander ~ Yale University
Peter Kivisto ~ Augustana University
Giuseppe Sciortino ~ University of Trento, Italy
Marcus Morgan ~ University of Bristol
Celso M. Villegas ~ Kenyon College
Ates Altinordu ~ Sabancı University, Istanbul
Nelson Arteaga Botello ~ Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO), México
Maria Luengo ~ Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
Malgorzata Kolankowska ~ University of Wroclaw, Poland
Bernadette Nadya Jaworsky ~ Masaryk University, Czechia
Werner Binder ~ Masaryk University, Czechia
Henrik Enroth ~ Linnaeus University, Sweden
Andrew Junker ~ Yale-China Association
Jason Mast ~ Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
Anne Taylor ~ Yale University